Unix Printing in a Windows environment

[Dip]

Hi All,

This is urgent please help.
I am looking for a standard printing solution which can be implemented
for UNIX based applications in a Windows environment.

At present there are users of UNIX applications spread across
multiple locations within the same city as well as across multiple
cities with the UNIX based application servers residing at a central
locations. The requirement is for the users to print to Windows based
printers available in their immediate vicinity. The print queues for
these printers are hosted on Windows Print Servers.

For one application duplicate print queues for the same printer are
created on UNIX Printer servers which channel the print jobs to the
printer. For the second one again, print queues are created on UNIX
Servers but this time the application detects the default printer
selected on the users desktop and sends the print queue to the mapping
UNIX Print queue.

The requirement is to suggest the best possible standard solution
which can be implemented in the long run to print from UNIX based
applications without any major changes to the existing systems.

Regards,
Dip

 

[Davide Guolo]

Dip,

At present there are users of UNIX applications spread across
multiple locations within the same city as well as across multiple
cities with the UNIX based application servers residing at a central
locations. The requirement is for the users to print to Windows based
printers available in their immediate vicinity. The print queues for
these printers are hosted on Windows Print Servers.

you may want to have a look at Printfil.

1) The Unix server has to redirect the print job to a file on disk (pretty
easy)

2) The Windows Client using the Unix app. via Telnet has to "see" the file
somehow. You can create an SMB share via Samba, NFS, Sco-VisionFS or
transfer the file via ftp, or use the Terminal Emulator software to forward
them from the Unix FS to the Windows machine

3) Printfil installed on the client machine automatically pick up the file
and forward it to the choosen Windows printer (including GDI -
Windows-Only - printers) with some extras included.

You can find more info and free Printfil trial to download at
http://www.printfil.com/download

Kind regards,
Davide Guolo
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